Look Who’s Related: Kevin Bacon and Brad Pitt

Many, if not most, people in the western world have played the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — a game where you try to find a connection between any actor and Kevin Bacon through the movies they have been in. Well, wouldn’t it be nice to play a similar game with genealogy? Now you can. For example, did you know that Kevin Bacon and Brad Pitt are 12th cousins thrice removed? Pretty neat. Here are a few of the most interesting paths:

Part of having the world family tree means that anyone can participate, and make it better. If you ever see any error in a relationship path, don’t hesitate to go in and fix it with sourced information. The more people we have working on our tree, the better it gets.